Pro Spring Batch

Chapter 6. Running a Job

Normally, you don't have to think about how to run an application in Java. If you have a web application, you run it in some form of container. To run the application, you start the container, which starts the application. If you want to run a stand-alone Java program, you either create an executable jar file or call the class directly. In either case you might write a shell script to launch the process.

However, running a batch job is different. This is partially because a batch job can be run either as a thread within an existing process (as it has been up to now) or within the main execution thread. It can be run within a container or as a stand-alone process. You can start a JVM with each execution, or you can have ...